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Leaving Austin, TX over fingerprint background checks.

Houston, among other places, is next.
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Typical governmental bullshit.

The next SxSW is going to be a clusterfuck now that Uber and Lyft are gone. Maybe it's time the SxSW festival picked a new city.
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Humans have probably just legislated themselves out of driving jobs.
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Colin Cowherd's co-host, Kristin Layhe (sp?), was bitching on Friday's show about her Uber driver returning to her place to burglarize her. Apparently, this is legit and the police are involved.

Not saying fingerprint checks are the solution, but I'd be willing to be Uber/Lyft's background checks could probably be better.

By the way, Google's self driving car will obviously put Uber and Lyft out of business in the future.
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I thought Uber's whole plan from the beginning was to buy a fleet of self-driving cars as soon as they are economically viable and get rid of their drivers. As such Google's self-driving car won't drive them out of business; they'll be the first big purchaser.
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That would make sense.

I wonder if the Uber drivers have realized that's the plan?
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I thought they said all along that this is their plan. But the earliest reference I can find is:
Uber, the leader in the ride-hailing market, publicly stated in 2014 that it intends to replace drivers with autonomous vehicles down the road. Yet, Uber has been mostly quiet about these efforts since then, making it easier for drivers to ignore the writing on the wall.
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TPRJones wrote:I thought they said all along that this is their plan. But the earliest reference I can find is:
Uber, the leader in the ride-hailing market, publicly stated in 2014 that it intends to replace drivers with autonomous vehicles down the road. Yet, Uber has been mostly quiet about these efforts since then, making it easier for drivers to ignore the writing on the wall.
Well, that would be the way to do it.
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The daily "YOU'RE EXPENDABLE BITCHES," text messages to their drivers probably got annoying.
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Beginning of the end.
The journey began 120 miles away at an Anheuser-Busch facility in Loveland, Colorado. The truck — a Volvo big rig equipped with cameras and sensors — was one of five owned by Otto, a San Francisco-based self-driving truck company acquired by Uber in August. A human driver piloted the truck to a weigh station in Fort Collins. From there, it drove 100 miles without human intervention to Colorado Springs, with the driver monitoring the two-hour trip from the sleeper berth. But once it entered the city limits, the driver took control.
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Waiting the for inevitable legislation making it so that a driver must be on board, even if it drives itself.
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TheCatt wrote:Waiting the for inevitable legislation making it so that a driver must be on board, even if it drives itself.
"Driver" might be a strong term. I think you'll have dudes whose job it is to ride along with the vehicle, call in repairs, and make sure the cargo stays safe. If a run really goes south, they'll transport a qualified driver out there to take the wheel. But you only need as many as you expect catastrophic failures.
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Really they'd be more like security guards patrolling a warehouse, except for not having to walk anywhere.
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TPRJones wrote:Really they'd be more like security guards patrolling a warehouse, except for not having to walk anywhere.
I predict a boom in the "humans babysitting robot workers" field.
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A minimum wage boom.
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If they can compete, there'll be a number of embedded systems and mobile programming jobs.
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Which will eventually be done by automated smart systems. Or until then done by guys in India.
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TPRJones wrote:Which will eventually be done by automated smart systems.

Nah, the paranoia of people is always going to guarantee a human failsafe ... well, unless someone cracks the secret of real AI.
Or until then done by guys in India.
Far more likely.
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Yall are too optimistic about what the government will require.
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TheCatt wrote:Yall are too optimistic about what the government will require.
You're too optimistic about the companies not bribing the shit out of Congress to let that slide due to the enormous cost savings they'll reap.
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